String Comparison help

I am writing a Cocoa Program. I have reached a problem when I am trying to compare a user generated string to a constant. Right now I am trying to compare them by using

Code:

if([abc stringValue] == @"xyz")
{
...
}

Where abc is an editable text field.
This doesn't work when I type xyz into abc and activate it. I know it is connected correctly as other functions are working. I believe it has to do with the null terminator or something, but I don't know how to fix the problem.
Can someone help me with this?

This doesn't work when I type xyz into abc and activate it. I know it is connected correctly as other functions are working. I believe it has to do with the null terminator or something, but I don't know how to fix the problem.

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The problem is that you are comparing the string pointers in your example to see if they are pointing at the same object. The hard-coded string will point at a pre-compiled string constant (implementation detail) while the other will point at a different string object.

As kainjow said, the correct approach is to use NSString's isEqualToString method to do the comparison.

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